Monthly Archives: May 2008

Just in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China has opened the world’s biggest airport. The new Terminal 3, built at a cost of $3.5 billion USD, measures a gigantic 501 square MILES! This one building is 17% bigger than the combined floorspace of all of Heathrow’s terminals 1, 2, 3, 4 and new Terminal 5.

From the air, the new airport looks like a giant guitar waiting for the God of all Guitar Heros to come down from the heavens and rock the planet. The building’s designer describes it this way:

This is a building borne of its context. It communicates a uniquely Chinese sense of place and will be a true gateway to the nation. This is expressed in its dragon-like form and the drama of the soaring roof that is a blaze of ‘traditional’ Chinese colours – imperial reds merge into golden yellows. As you proceed along the central axis, view of the red columns stretching ahead into the far distance evokes images of a Chinese temple.

The new airport is part of a series of structures that China is building for their Olympic coming out party on 08-08-08. No other country has ever spent this much money on an Olympics and I doubt any country ever will in the future. They’re making the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver look like a five and dine store. No doubt about it. To get rich IS glorious.

Check out more information and pictures of the new airport at Arch Daily.

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how thingswere so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it andwanted to give up, She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed asone problem was solved, a new one arose.Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water andplaced each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first sheplaced carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placedground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots

out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in abowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to herdaughter, she asked, ‘ Tell me what you see.’‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,’ she replied.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did andnoted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an eggand break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughtersmiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, ‘What does itmean, mother?’

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the sameadversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently The carrot went instrong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boilingwater, it softened and became weak The egg had been fragile. Its thin outershell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through theboiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans wereunique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changedthe water.

‘Which are you?’ she asked her daughter. ‘When adversity knocks on yourdoor, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with painand adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat?Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financialhardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does myshell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiffspirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, thevery circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releasesthe fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at theirworst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour isthe darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate yourself toanother level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or acoffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make youstrong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; theyjust make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightestfuture will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward inlife until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyonearound you is crying.

You might want to send this message to those people who mean something toyou (I JUST DID); to those who have touched your life in one way or another;to those who make you smile when you really need it; to those who make yousee the brighter side of things when you are really down; to those whosefriendship you appreciate; to those who are so meaningful in your life.

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China Earthquake, what can we help? Yes, Definitely we can do something! MSN had agreed to give out 2cent if we, the internet users, MSN Messenger users attached the rainbow signed in front of our MSN Messenger!